Cultural Drifts is a Los Angeles-based collective dedicated to producing performance, visual work, and publishing projects at the intersection of art, theater, and protest. Our work is grounded in the belief that performance remains one of the most immediate and unflinching forms of cultural inquiry in the age of mind-numbing streaming that lulls, disembodies, and splinters attention.
We are currently preparing our second performance festival, Notes From the Underground—a curated evening of live, interdisciplinary actions that confront exile, eroticism, resistance, and nostalgia against the Disneyfied decay of all certainties.
26 APRIL 2025
(7:00 pm-9:00 pm)
THE LUNA FACTORY
126 FOURTH STREET
DTLA 90013
A live interview between a performer and an emotional surrogate based in Ukraine.
This is not reportage. It is an act of mediated intimacy—sustained through screens, shaped by distance, and defined by the endurance of care under conditions of rupture.
Fantasy Market
A cam performer offers fantasies, ideologies, and emotional labor for sale in real time.
This is a transactional structure in which commodified desire reflects, distorts, and resells the viewer’s own projections. Performance becomes both mirror and marketplace.
Voices Collected for an Unfinished Symphony
A public sound composition built through spontaneous interactions.
The performer moves through space inviting strangers to speak, hum, confess, or remain silent—gathering fragments of language into a live score of collective presence and sonic residue.
What Are You Willing to Give Up?
A participatory performance structured around acts of self-labelling, exchange, and erasure.
Audience members must define themselves, then relinquish or re-negotiate those identities in dialogue with others—mapping the thresholds of belief, belonging, and non-negotiability.
The Scent of Forgotten Wars
A mobile scent-based performance reconstructing the olfactory memory of conflict.
Using materials drawn from historical accounts and chemical archives, the performer offers a visceral archaeology of war—rendering the past inhalable.
We Asked for Shelter, You Gave Us Language
Three performers speak simultaneously: one reads from transcripts of displaced persons; another voices the rhetoric of state denial; the third recites media narratives of spectacle and abstraction. The resulting dissonance captures the structural impossibility of asylum in a system built on noise, indifference, and repetition.